. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. â J* BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE. 323 monarch for the dower she held in England, for two thou- sand marks per annum, to be paid half-yearly. After being entertained with royal magnificence, and receiving every mark of respect from the Enghsh court, the royal widow bade farewell to public splendour, a
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. â J* BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE. 323 monarch for the dower she held in England, for two thou- sand marks per annum, to be paid half-yearly. After being entertained with royal magnificence, and receiving every mark of respect from the Enghsh court, the royal widow bade farewell to public splendour, and retired to conventual seclu- sion and the practice of constant charity. But no sooner was John firmly fixed on the English throne, than he began to neglect the payment of the dower for which his sister-in- law had compounded; and, in 1206, there appears in the Foedera a passport for the queen-dowager to come to England for the purpose of conferring with king John. Thero exists no authority whereby we can prove that she arrived in this country;* but, in 1207, the pope awarded her half the personal goods of her husband. The records of 1209 present a most elaborate epistle from nope Innocent, setting forth the wrongs and wants of his dear daughter in Christ, Berengaria, who, he says, had appealed to him "^vith floods of tears streaming down her cheeks, and with audible cries,"âwhich we trust were flowers of rhetoric f>f the pope's secretary. As pope Innocent threatens John with an interdict, it is pretty certain that the wrongs of Be- rengaria formed a clause in the subsequent excommunication of the felon king. Bale, in his coarse comedy of King Jehan, (of M'hichking John is the very shabby hero,) bestows a hberal portion of revihng on Berengaria, because she was the cause of the papal interdict m that reign; but this abuse is levelled at her under the name of queen Juliana. What connexion there was between the queen of Coeur de Lion and the name of Jiihana, is d
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